Career
He became the Chief Rabbi and head of the Bet Din of Stropkov in 1847 at the recommendation of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. Chaim Yosef died on Monday, 4 Adar II, 5627 / 11 March 1867 and is buried in the Tisinec cemetery. There is a School in Jerusalem named after him Called Yeshivas Rabbenu Chaim Yosef.
They publish a book which lists all the descendants of Reb Chaim Yosef called Sefer Hayachas.